Cento at Thrush

Friends, I have been obsessively writing (assembling perhaps is a better word) centos this summer. My first one is now at Thrush Poetry Journal, Dementia Cento. Thanks, Helen Vitoria, for believing in this form.

(And if you are not sure what a cento it, here's a discussion.)

Thrilled with Thrush

Two sets of erasures are now up at the July 2017 issue of Thrush. Thanks so much to editor Helen Vitoria for putting my work next to that of Patty Paine (from diode editions) and Simon Perchik, among others.

Spike: Me on 3 Quarks Daily

Some days the number of people viewing my website spikes, and I don't know why. Sometimes I try to figure it out (though usually I'm too busy plus I have found that trying to figure it out is a waste of time anyway; plus it's just embarrassing to be looking for information about one's self). But I did just find that a spike last month was due to a poem of my being reposted (from Thrush Poetry Journal) to the very cool site 3 Quarks Daily. (They reposted the lack of a stanza break too. Oh well.)

So that's an exciting discovery. I still don't know what caused today's spike though, and may never find out......

The Periodic Table in Song

My new manuscript, which I began sending around last November, is called Mendeleev's Mandala. Mendeleev is the guy who discovered (or created, depending on your POV) the periodic table of elements.

So I have a thing for the periodic table (of course I do, what a list: every known thing!). Anyway, I just discovered this video from AsapScience (via Maria Popova's Explore website).

 

Enjoy!

 

 

(And here's the title poem from my manuscript (scroll down) at Thrush Poetry Journal.)

Kartsonis Online

A poet I am particularly entranced with, Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis, is featured in the Thrush September edition online. Thrush is a new online journal that I couldn't be more enthusiastic about. So go!

 

Three at Thrush

Thrush Poetry Journal has their March edition up and online, and I'm pleased to have three poems in it, alongside work by Ocean Vuong, Traci Brimhall, and Nate Pritts. I have really enjoyed the poems published at Thrush since its recent inception, and find it, along with the Sugar House Review, to be an online journal worth watching.